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JOURNAL  OF  EDUCATIONAL  RESEARCH  MONOGRAPHS 

B.  R.  BUCKINGHAM,  Editor 
No.  3  June,  1922 


The  Iowa  Spelling  Scales 

Their  Derivation,  Uses, 
and  Limitations 


ERNEST  J.  ASHBAUGH 

Professor  of  School  Administration 

and 

Assistant  Director,  Bureau  of 
Educational  Research 

OHIO  STATE  UNIVERSITY 


PUBLIC  SCHOOL  PUBLISHING  COMPANY 

BLOOMINGTON,  ILLINOIS 


JOURNAL  OF  EDUCATIONAL  RESEARCH  MONOGRAPHS 

B.  R.  BUCKINGHAM,  Editor 
No.  3  June,  1922 


The  Iowa  Spelling  Scales 

Their  Derivation,  Uses, 
and  Limitations 


ERNEST  J.  ASHBAUGH 

Professor  of  School  Administration 

and 

Assistant  Director,   Bureau  of 
Educational  Research 

OHIO  STATE  UNIVERSITY 


PUBLIC  SCHOOL  PUBLISHING  COMPANY 
BLOOMINGTON,  ILLINOIS 


Copyright  1922 

By  Public  School  Publishing  Co. 
Bloomington,  Illinois 


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 

This  study  was  undertaken  as  a  direct  service  to  the  schools  of 
the  State  of  Iowa  through  the  suggestion  of  Professor  Ernest  Horn, 
to  whom  I  owe  the  greatest  debt  of  gratitude  for  continuous  en- 
couragement and  helpful  criticism. 

I  wish  to  thank  the  superintendents,  teachers  and  pupils  who 
gave  so  freely  of  their  time  and  effort  in  securing  the  spellings 
and  also  the  Dean  of  the  Graduate  College  and  the  Director  of  the 
Extension  Division  who  financed  from  their  budgets  the  collection 
and  scoring  of  the  data. 

Acknowledgments  are  also  made  to  Dean  Russell,  Associate 
Professor  Lewis,  and  Dr.  Harry  A.  Greene  for  their  sympathetic 
counsel  and  assistance  throughout  the  progress  of  the  study. 

E.  J.  A. 


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TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Section  I.     Introduction   7-13 

Fields  of  experimental  pedagogy 7 

Studies  in  determination  of  vocabulary 8 

Studies  in  derivation  of  scales 10 

Section  II.     The  Problem 13 

Section  III.     Method  of  Gathering  the  Data 14-15 

Selection  and  arrangement  of  words 14 

Cooperation  of  the  schools  of  the  state 14 

Section  IV.     Method  of  Handling  the  Data 15-16 

Section  V.     Assumed  Distribution  of  Ability 16-20 

Normal  probability  curve  assumed 16 

Some  properties  of  the  curve 17 

Placing  words  in  the  scale 18 

Section  VI.     Use  of  the  Scales 20-22 

Measurement  of  status  of  ability 21 

Measurement  of  growth  of  ability 22 

A  minimum  spelling  list 22 

Section  VII.    Limitation  of  the  Scales 22-26 

Number  of  spellings  used 23 

Distribution  of  spellings 24 

Words  given  in  list  form 24 

Words  of  varying  difficulty  placed  in  the  same  list 25 

No  zero  point  on  the  scale 26 

Section  VIII.     Bibliography 26-27 

Section  IX.     The  Iowa  Spelling  Scale,  Grade  2 30-43 

Section  X.     The  Iowa  Spelling  Scale,  Grade  3 46-59 

Section  XI.     The  Iowa  Spelling  Scale,  Grade  4 62-75 

Section  XII.     The  Iowa  Spelling  Scale,  Grade  5 78-91 

Section  XIII.     The  Iowa  Spelling  Scale,  Grade  6 94-107 

Section  XIV.     The  Iowa  Spelling  Scale,  Grade  7 110-123 

Section  XV.     The  Iowa  Spelling  Scale,  Grade  8 123-139 

Appendix 142-144 

Exhibit  A  142 

Exhibit  B   143 

Exhibit  C   .  144 


INTRODUCTION 

The  Iowa  Spelling  Scales  have  been  extensively  used.  The 
relatively  large  number  of  words  included  in  them  and  their  free- 
dom from  excessive  statistical  manipulation  have  rightly  com- 
mended them  to  practical  workers.  They  have,  however,  been  -out 
of  print  for  some  time.  Moreover,  even  those  who  are  fortunate 
enough  to  possess  the  scales  in  their  original  form  no  doubt  realize 
that  they  are  capable  of  a  more  useful  presentation. 

Accordingly  this  monograph  is  offered  for  those  who  desire  a 
complete  representation  of  the  scale  in  permanent  form.  The  per- 
cents  of  correct  spellings  in  each  grade  are  given  for  each  of  the 
nearly  3,000  words  of  the  scale.  Nowhere  else  has  such  a  detailed 
showing  of  the  difficulty  of  the  spelling  of  words  been  made. 

An  account  is  also  given  of  the  derivation  of  the  scale;  and 
this  is  no  inconsiderable  contribution.  The  reader  will  no  doubt  be 
impressed  by  the  author's  scientific  attitude  and  by  his  unwilling- 
ness to  compromise  with  his  ideals  of  accuracy  through  adopting 
all-too-prevalent  devices  for  smoothing  out  difficulties  and  then 
pretending  that  such  difficulties  do  not  exist. 

We  are  glad  to  observe  the  position  which  Doctor  Ashbaugh 
takes  on  the  question  of  the  degree  of  difficulty  of  the  words  which 
constitute  the  best  testing  material.  In  substance  he  says  that  the 
nearer  they  are  to  50  percent  accuracy  for  the  grade  in  question 
the  better.  There  has  been  a  strong  tendency  among  users  of 
spelling  tests  to  select  words  which  were  much  too  easy.  This 
tendency  has  been  fostered  partly  by  the  fact  that  the  Ayres  Scale 
lists  for  each  grade  only  the  words  spelled  by  50  percent  or  more 
of  the  children,  and  partly  by  the  naive  desire  to  see  larger  figures. 
Somehow  one  thinks  more  highly  of  a  class  average  of  87  than  of 
one  of  46,  although  the  latter  may  indicate  a  better  performance. 

The  publication  of  the  Iowa  Spelling  Scales  in  this  form  will 
place  at  the  disposal  of  school  people  a  far  larger  number  of  eval- 
uated words  than  have  hitherto  been  generally  available.  This 
richness  of  material  will  greatly  enhance  the  usefulness  of  the 
scale.  Duplicate  lists  can  easily  be  made,  and  a  prolonged  program 
of  testing  can  be  carried  on  without  the  necessity  of  making  al- 
lowance for  practice  effects.  Moreover,  the  fact  that  the  words  of 
the  scale  are  selected  on  the  basis  of  frequency  of  use  in  correspond- 
ence renders  the  material  particularly  appropriate  for  teaching 
and  drill  purposes.  In  fact  as  a  spelling  book  this  monograph  has 
high  value.  The  appropriateness  of  the  words  is  assured  because 
of  their  frequent  use  in  correspondence — that  is,  in  the  only  situa- 
tion where  spelling  ability  is  sure  to  be  required — while  the  known 
difficulty  of  the  words  permits  intelligent  grading  and  distinctions 
in  teaching  emphasis. 

B.  R.  BUCKINGHAM,  Editor. 


SECTION  I 

INTRODUCTION 

FIELDS  OF  EXPERIMENTAL  PEDAGOGY 

The  last  two  decades  have  witnessed  a  large  amount  of  work 
in  the  field  of  experimental  pedagogy.  This  has  principally  fol- 
lowed three  general  lines,  namely,  (1)  the  selection  of  subject 
matter,  (2)  the  determination  of  efficient  methods  of  teaching  or 
learning,  and  (3)  the  formulation  of  more  or  less  objective  meas- 
ures for  checking  the  results. 

The  Committee  on  Economy  of  Time  of  the  National  Educa- 
tion Association  through  its  three  reports  (1)  has  done  a  large 
amount  of  work  in  the  selection  of  subject  matter.  These  reports 
have  challenged  the  attention  of  superintendents  and  the  rec- 
ommendations have  been  written  into  numerous  courses  of  study. 
State  Teachers'  Associations  have  taken  up  the  work;  their 
committees  have  attacked  the  problem  and  in  many  cases  have 
added  something  to  this  re-direction  of  education. 

The  determination  of  efficient  methods  of  teaching  and  learn- 
ing has  appealed  to  psychologists  and  teachers.  In  laboratories 
and  experimental  schools  much  time  and  effort  has  been  spent  in 
gathering  bit  by  bit  the  evidence  for  the  different  subjects.  The 
experimental  evidence  in  reading,  writing,  spelling,  arithmetic, 
drawing,  and  music,  and  such  conclusions  as  are  warranted 
thereby,  have  been  collected  from  the  various  schools  and  are  pre- 
sented by  another  committee  in  the  Eighteenth  Yearbook.  (2) 
Further  consideration  will  not  be  given  to  this  field  since  it  is  not 
pertinent  to  the  research  in  this  monograph. 

The  effort  in  the  third  line  has  brought  forth  the  large  number 
of  scales  and  tests  now  available.  The  measurement  of  progress 
requires  an  accurate  means  of  measuring  initial  status.  The  com- 
parison of  one  class  with  another,  or  of  one  school  system  with 
another,  especially  when  the  testing  must  be  done  by  different 
persons,  also  requires  a  measuring  instrument  little  influenced  by 
different  personalities.  One  of  the  goals  of  the  makers  of  standard- 
ized tests  and  scales  has  been  to  obtain  an  objective  measuring  in- 
strument as  little  disturbed  as  possible  by  the  individual  using  it. 

Perhaps  in  no  subject  has  there  been  more  experimental  work 
done  than  in  spelling.  The  subject  lends  itself  to  careful  study 
in  the  fields  already  designated.  The  investigations  which  we 
wish  to  review  briefly  as  an  introduction  to  the  present  study  have 
dealt  with  two  problems:  (1)  the  determination  of  the  vocab- 


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ulary  which  should  be  included  in  children's  spelling,  and  (2)  the 
derivation  of  objective  scales  for  the  measurement  of  spelling 
ability. 

STUDIES  IN  THE  DETERMINATION  OF  VOCABULARY 

An  examination  of  the  tabulation1  shown  in  Table  I  will  reveal 
the  fact  that  the  sources  investigated  for  the  selection  of  spelling 
vocabularies  fall  into  four  general  groups;  (1)  occurrence  in 
reading  vocabulary,  (2)  occurrence  in  school  lessons  or  classroom 
work,  (3)  occurrence  in  children's  compositions,  and  (4)  occurrence 
in  correspondence,  usually  that  of  adults. 

The  first  attempt  to  compare  carefully  the  spelling  work  of 
different  school  systems  seems  to  have  been  reported  by  Rice  (14) 
in  1897.  In  1895  he  sent  out  a  list  of  fifty  words  to  superintend- 

TABLE  I.     CONSPECTUS  OF  VOCABULARY  STUDIES. 


AUTHOR 

DATE 

SOURCE  OF  MATERIAL 

Knowles,  Eev.  J.    (3) 

1904 

Passages  from  the  Bible  and  various 

authors 

Eldridge,  E.  C.    (4) 

1911 

Articles  of  Sunday  Newspapers 

Ayres,   L.   P.    (5) 

1913 

Personal  and  Business  Letters 

Jones,  W.   F.    (6) 

1913 

Children  's   Composition 

Cook,  W.  A.  and  O'Shea, 

1914 

Family   Correspondence 

M.  V.   (7) 

Nicholson,   Anne    (8) 

1914 

Selected    by   teachers    and    supervisors 

(Editor) 

from  dailv  lessons 

New       Orleans      Public 

1916 

Children's  School  Work 

School   List    (9) 

Kansas      City       Public 

1916 

Selected  from  pupil's  misspelled  words 

School  List   (10) 

and    teachers'    judgment   of    words 

pupils    should    know    how    to    spell 

Houser,    J.    D.    (11) 

1916 

Letters   of  farmers 

Anderson,  W.  N.   (12) 

1917 

Written      correspondence      of      Iowa 

People 

Horn,  E.   (13) 

1918 

Correspondence        of        Bankers        to 

Bankers 

ents  in  various  sections  of  the  United  States.  Twenty  responded 
sending  in  the  work  of  more  than  16,000  children.  The  results  of 
the  test  showed  enormous  variations,  but  a  two  months'  tour 
spent  in  visiting  the  various  schools  convinced  him  that  much  of 
this  variation  was  due  to  the  peculiar  manner  in  which  the  ex- 
aminations had  been  conducted.  Also  careful  pronunciation  of 
several  of  the  words  would  have  given  a  clue  to  the  spelling. 

1  This  tabulation  presents  only  the  more  important  studies  from  the  dif- 
ferent sources.  For  a  more  complete  list  see  Anderson,  W.  N.  ' '  The  determi- 
nation of  a  spelling  vocabulary  based  upon  written  correspondence."  (Dis- 
sertation, University  of  Iowa,  1917.) 


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For  these  reasons  the  results  of  the  test  were  considered  un- 
satisfactory. 

A  second  test  involving  fifty  words  in  grades  four  and  five,  and 
seventy-five  words  in  grades  six,  seven,  and  eight  in  sentence- 
dictation  form,  was  given  to  13,000  children  in  eight  school  sys- 
tems. In  these  cases  the  tests  were  given  under  his  personal  direc- 
tion and  checked  by  his  assistants. 

Dr.  Rice  made  no  statement  in  his  report  regarding  the  manner 
of  selecting  his  words  except  that  in  the  second  test ' '  special  care 
was  exercised  to  omit  words  whose  pronunciation  would  tell  the 
secret"  (15)  of  the  correct  spelling. 

Too  much  credit  can  scarcely  be  given  Rice  for  his  pioneer 
efforts.  He  initiated  the  whole  measurement  movement.  Two 
criticisms,  however,  may  be  directed  against  his  work:  (1)  the 
words  were  not  selected  on  the  basis  of  those  which  children  need 
to  learn  to  spell;  and  (2)  the  words  were  of  greatly  varying  dif- 
ficulty but  were  given  equal  value  in  scoring.  The  best  evidence 
in  support  of  the  first  point  is,  that  of  the  77  words  used  in  the 
second  test,  15  do  not  occur  among  the  4,000  words  of  highest 
frequency  in  the  combined  results  of  the  nine  most  extensive 
studies  of  correspondence.2  These  words  are :  almanac,  ascend- 
ing, changeable,  conscientious,  deceive,  elegant,  fatiguing,  hop- 
ping, laughter,  listened,  praise,  sensible,  slipped,  sweeping, 
whistling.  Of  these,  six  do  not  appear  in  any  form,  even  the  most 
simple. 

Rice  recognized  that  the  material  for  spelling  instruction 
should  be  selected  in  such  a  way  as  to  eliminate  unusual  words. 
This  is  shown  by  two  quotations :  ' '  The  absurdities  incident  to  the 
so-called  'natural  method'  were  shown  very  clearly  during  one  of 
my  visits  to  a  fifth-year  class,  when  the  pupils,  who  had  studied 
the  pine,  were  about  to  write  a  composition  on  the  subject.  In 
preparation,  the  spelling  lesson  of  the  day  consisted  of  the  follow- 
ing words :  exogen,  erect,  cylindrical,  coniferal,  irregular,  inde- 
structible, pins,  resinous,  and  whorls."  (16)  His  fourth  recom- 
mendation concerning  the  course  in  spelling  reads  thus:  "Pre- 
cedence should  be  given  to  common  words,  while  technical  and 
unusual  words  should  be  taught  incidentally."  (17)  However,  he 
gave  us  no  clue  as  to  how  the  "common  words"  should  be  de- 
tected. 

That  Rice's  words  were  of  greatly  varying  difficulty  was 
pointed  out  by  Thorndike  (18)  who  gives  the  relative  frequency 
of  mistakes  within  the  same  group  of  children  for  each  of  the 
forty-nine  words  taken  by  Dr.  Rice  to  be  equal  measures  of  spell- 

3  The  results  of  this  compilation  have  not  been  published.  Access  to  the 
data  was  secured  through  the  kindness  of  Dr.  Horn. 


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ing  ability.  These  forty-nine  range  from  a  frequency  of  forty- 
two  errors  to  zero.  Unfortunately,  the  table  does  not  give  the 
total  number  of  children  attempting  the  test,  so  it  cannot  be 
placed  on  a  percentage  basis. 

The  reader's  attention  is  called  to  Table  II.  This  table  gives 
the  frequency  of  error  of  fifth-grade  children  on  five  of  Dr.  Rice 's 
words  as  found  by  Thorndike  and  the  percent  of  error  of  fifth- 
grade  children  on  the  same  words  as  shown  by  the  Ayres  scale 
and  the  present  study. 

TABLE  II.     DIFFERENCE    IN    DIFFICULTY    OF    FIVE    WORDS    RE- 
GARDED BY  DR.  RICE  AS  OF  EQUAL  DIFFICULTY. 


Word 

Frequency     of     Error 
Grade  V  —  Thorndike 

Percentage    of    Error 
Grade  V  —  Ayres 

Percentage    of    Error 
Grade  V  —  Ashbaugh 

necessary 
disappoint 
learn 
because 
picture 

42 
37 
3 

1 
0 

58 
79 
12 
6 
8 

77 
64 
14 
6 
5 

STUDIES  IN  DERIVATION  OF  SCALES 

The  studies  intended  to  evaluate  the  words  to  be  used  in  meas- 
uring spelling  ability  have  been  but  two  in  number  previous  to 
this  monograph. 

Buckingham.  (19)  In  1913,  Buckingham  presented  the  educa- 
tional world  with  the  first  spelling  scale.  He  did  preliminary 
testing  with  a  list  of  270  words  selected  from  a  much  larger  list 
of  graded  words  used  by  the  author  in  his  own  school.  These  had 
been  selected  by  taking  from  five  of  the  popular  spelling  books 
then  in  use,  a  vocabulary  of  5,000  words  agreed  upon  by  two  or 
more  of  the  books,  and  then  following  two  principles:  (1)  "that 
all  of  them  should  be  sufficiently  common  to  be  in  the  speaking 
vocabulary  of  third-grade  children,"  and  (2)  "that  the  spelling 
difficulty  of  many  of  them  should  be  great  enough  to  test  the 
ability  of  eighth-grade  children."  (20) 

These  words  were  placed  in  sentences  and  dictated  to  grades 
three  to  eight.  On  the  basis  of  the  results,  a  group  of  100  words 
were  chosen  which  in  general  showed  the  following  character- 
istics: (1)  That  the  word  was  not  so  difficult  that  it  offered  no 
test  of  third-grade  ability.  (2)  That  it  showed  a  steady  increase 
through  the  following  grades  but  did  not  reach  so  high  a  figure 
in  the  highest  grades  as  to  prevent  its  being  a  test  of  ability  there. 

These  words  were  placed  in  sentences  and  their  difficulty  de- 
termined by  additional  testing.  By  this  process  he  finally  arrived 
at  a  first  and  a  second  preferred  list  of  25  words  each.  In  order 


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to  get  a  measure  of  zero  ability,  an  easy  list  of  fifty  words  was 
devised.  These  words  were  then  evaluated  with  a  high  degree 
of  precision  and  were  presented  for  testing  purposes  in  the  form 
of  ten-,  twenty-five-,  and  fifty-word  scales. 

The  small  number  of  words  limits  the  usefulness  of  the  scale 
since  the  entire  list  can  be  quickly  learned  to  100  percent  median 
accuracy  by  a  class  of  ordinary  ability  in  the  upper  grades.  The 
study  is  of  great  interest  to  advanced  students  of  education  be- 
cause of  the  great  refinement  of  method.  It  is  doubtful,  however, 
if  the  high  degree  of  refinement  adds  anything  to  the  value  of  the 
scale  for  practical  use  by  teachers,  principals,  and  superintendents 
in  the  field. 

Ay  res.  (21)  Probably  the  most  advanced  step  in  spelling 
measurement  was  taken  by  Ayres  in  1915  in  presenting  his  Meas- 
uring Scale  for  Ability  in  Spelling.  The  1,000  words  in  this  scale 
were  secured  by  combining  "the  results  of  the  several  studies  so 
as  to  secure  the  most  reliable  list  as  a  foundation  for  the 
work."  (22)  The  placing  of  the  "one  thousand  commonest 
words"  in  the  measuring  scale  assumes  that  children  should  be 
taught  and  be  able  to  spell  these  "commonest  words"  even  though 
they  are  unable  to  spell  other  words.  With  this  assumption  we 
agree. 

Two  criticisms  will  be  offered  concerning  the  selection  of  the 
words : 

1.  The  list  is  a  hybrid  since  it  is  made  up  by  combining  cor- 
respondence frequencies  with  newspaper  and  literary  frequencies. 
A  comparison  of  these  1,000  words  with  the  most  extensive  studies 
of  correspondence  reveals  33  words  which  never  occur  in  these 
correspondence  lists,  and  71  others  which  do  not  occur  in  the  3,000 
words  of  greatest  frequency.     Such  words  as:     arrest,  convict, 
capture,  estate,  jail,  mayor,  police,  testimony,  victim,  and  witness, 
occur  frequently  in  newspapers  but  only  a  few  people  ever  have 
any  occasion  to  write  them.    Why  then  should  they  be  admitted 
to  our  minimal  spelling  lists? 

2.  In  the  selection  of  these  words,  root  forms  and  derivatives 
were    counted    as    one    form   unless    they   presented    "different 
spelling  difficulties."     "Plurals  and  verb  forms  presenting  no 
characteristic  spelling  difficulties  beyond  those  inherent  in  the 
singular  or  infinitive  have  not  been  included.  (23)    Researches  by 
the  writer  (24)  have  convinced  him  that  almost  without  exception 
derived  forms  are  spelled  with  less  accuracy  than  root  forms, 
however  simple  the  change  involved,  and  that  one  cannot  select 
by  inspection  the  forms  having  slight  variation  from  those  having 
wide  variation. 

A  further  criticism  must  be  made  on  the  regularity  of  the  ad- 
vancement of  words  in  the  scale.  If  all  words  were  learned  at  the 


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same  rate,  this  regularity  might  exist.  Buckingham  found  that 
most  of  the  words  which  he  tried  out  did  not  progress  regularly 
and  that  frequently  there  was  a  reversal  instead  of  advance  in 
accuracy  from  one  grade  to  another. 

He  says,  * '  In  order  that  this  list  should  be  of  greatest  value  it 
should  be  so  constituted  that  the  increases  in  percents  correct  so 
keep  pace  with  the  increase  from  grade  to  grade  of  general 
spelling  ability  that  a  word  tends  in  all  grades  to  maintain  the 
same  difficulty  relative  to  all  other  words  in  the  list  to  which  it 
belongs.  A  word  which  is  twentieth  in  point  of  difficulty  for  the 
third  grade  ought  to  deviate  as  little  as  possible  from  the  same 
rank  in  the  other  grades.  The  experience  gained  in  making  this 
investigation  leads  us  to  think  that  most  words  do  not  meet  this 
condition,  even  approximately.  The  span  between  the  third  and 
the  eighth  grades  is  very  wide.  Accordingly,  a  very  large  class  of 
words  is  impossible  for  the  earlier  yet  easy  for  the  later  grades. 
Still  others  are  really  difficult  in  the  lower  grades,  but  of  almost 
no  difficulty  in  the  upper  grades."  (25) 

The  following  illustration  from  Buckingham 's  Preferred  Lists 
show  that  although  he  purposely  rejected  the  most  irregular 
words,  irregularities  still  existed. 


TABLE  III.     PERCENT  OF  ACCURACY  WITH  WHICH  CHILDREN  OF 
SUCCESSIVE  GRADES  SPELLED  EACH  OF  THE  GIVEN  WORDS.8 


Word 

Third 

Fourth 

Fifth 

Sixth 

Seventh 

Eighth 

saucer 
raise 
already 
grease 

11 
21 
16 
11 

29 
54 
42 
18 

42 
67 
43 

37 

58 
84 
62 
35 

79 
93 
44 

42 

81 
94 
77 
57 

This  table  is  read  as  follows :  The  word  ' '  saucer ' '  was  spelled 
by  third-grade  children  with  an  average  accuracy  of  11  percent ; 
by  fourth-grade  children  with  29  percent ;  by  fifth-grade  children 
with  42  percent,  etc.  The  percents  for  the  other  words  in  the 
different  grades  are  read  in  the  same  manner. 

The  first  two  words  show  rather  consistent  increases  up  to  the 
seventh  grade  and  practically  no  increase  from  seventh  to  eighth. 
The  other  two  show  actual  instances  of  lower  accuracy  of  spelling 
in  one  grade  than  in  the  previous  grade. 

The  present  study  shows  numerous  illustrations  of  the  same 
phenomenon.  Since  no  word  was  rejected,  lapses  appeared,  as 
might  have  been  anticipated  from  the  fact  that  they  occurred  in 
Buckingham's  highly  selected  list.  Further,  these  lapses  occur 

1  These  words  with  their  accuracies  were  selected  from  Buckingham,  B.  R. 
Spelling  Ability — Its  Measurement  and  Distribution.  Table  III,  page  14. 


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much  more  frequently  in  cases  of  high  accuracy  (i.  e.,  very  easy 
words)  than  in  those  of  medium  or  low. 

Because  of  these  findings,  a  serious  question  must  be  raised 
concerning  the  amount  of  smoothing  which  Ayres  must  have  done 
to  get  the  perfect  regularity  from  grade  to  grade  which  he  has 
upon  his  scale. 

In  order  to  present  the  situation  as  it  was  actually  found,  it 
was  decided  to  provide  in  the  present  study  a  separate  scale  for 
each  of  the  grades  and  to  include  in  each  scale  the  whole  number 
of  words.  Ayres  arbitrarily  rejected  from  consideration  all  words 
for  each  grade  whose  accuracy  fell  below  the  middle  step.  In  the 
present  study,  no  smoothing  has  been  done  to  show  regularity  of 
progress  from  grade  to  grade  and  no  words  have  been  rejected 
from  any  grade  scale  regardless  of  the  low  percent  of  accuracy 
involved. 

In  the  field  of  measurement,  the  Ayres  scale  has  had  a  much 
wider  influence  than  that  by  Buckingham.  More  than  eighty-five 
thousand  copies  have  been  distributed  in  less  than  four  years. 
Many  spelling  tests,  such  as  those  by  Courtis  (26),  Monroe  (27), 
Fordyce  (28),  and  the  writer  (29)  have  been  based  directly  upon 
it,  and  probably  hundreds  of  superintendents  have  adopted  it  out- 
right as  a  minimal  list  for  their  schools. 

SECTION  II 

THE  PROBLEM 

Extension  work  by  the  writer  among  the  school  people  of  Iowa 
has  brought  the  following  facts  clearly  to  his  attention : 

1.  School  people  are  eager  to  use  the  results  of  scientific  re- 
search in  their  school  rooms. 

2.  They  have  used  and  appreciated  the  Ayres  Spelling  Scale 
but  rightly  think  that  there  should  be  a  larger  list. 

3.  For  this  larger  list  to  be  of  most  worth,  the  words  must  be 
evaluated  in  some  manner. 

It  was  therefore  believed  that  a  distinct  service  would  be  ren- 
dered the  schools  of  the  state  if  a  much  larger  list,  scientifically 
selected,  should  be  evaluated  and  made  available. 

At  the  time  the  work  was  begun,  the  most  extensive  study  of 
correspondence  vocabulary  was  that  of  W.  N.  Anderson.  Through 
the  tabulation  of  3723  letters  of  Iowa  people,  361,184  running 
words  revealed  3105  different  words  having  such  a  frequency  as 
to  justify,  in  his  judgment,  their  being  taught  in  school.  The  An- 
derson list  was  an  Iowa  correspondence  list,  scientifically  selected 
and  containing  sufficient  words  for  a  much  larger  list  than  had 
ever  before  been  evaluated.  Thus  the  problem  became  definite — 
tlie  making  of  an  Iowa  Spelling  Scale. 


14  Tine  Iowa  Spelling  Scales 

SECTION  III 

METHOD  OF  GATHERING  THE  DATA 

SELECTION  AND  ARRANGEMENT  OF  WORDS 

For  administrative  convenience,  only  3,000  words  were  taken 
from  Anderson 's  list.  The  words  were  listed  in  order  of  decreas- 
ing frequency  and  the  first  3,000  were  arbitrarily  chosen.  These 
3,000  were  divided  into  three  sets  of  1,000  words  each,  dividing 
the  frequency  as  equally  as  possible.  For  example,  the  words  and, 
the  and  to  being  in  order  the  words  of  greatest  frequency  in  An- 
derson 's  tabulation,  became  the  first  word  respectively  of  each 
of  the  three  sets.  The  4th,  5th  and  6th  words  in  order  of  highest 
frequency  became  respectively  the  second  words  of  each  set,  and 
so  on.  Each  set  of  1,000  was  then  divided  into  ten  lists  of  100 
words  each.4  In  each  set,  the  1st,  llth,  21st,  etc.  words  became 
list  1 ;  the  2nd,  12th,  22nd,  etc.  became  list  2 ;  etc.  Thus  each  list 
included  words  ranging  from  very  high  to  lowest  frequency  of 
occurrence  in  Anderson's  study.  These  lists  were  printed  100 
words  on  a  sheet,  and  the  ten  lists  of  a  set  clipped  together. 

CO-OPERATION  OF  THE  SCHOOLS  OF  THE  STATE 

An  invitation  to  co-operate  in  a  state-wide  survey  of  spelling 
was  sent  to  the  superintendents  of  schools  in  all  cities  and  towns 
of  the  state,  having  a  population  of  1,000  or  more.  A  few  smaller 
places  were  also  invited  to  participate.  More  than  150  superin- 
tendents promised  the  co-operation  of  their  teachers  in  this  work. 
Enough  sets  of  words  were  sent  to  each  of  these  superintendents 
to  supply  his  teachers  and  printed  instructions  accompanied  each 
set.  A  copy  of  these  instructions  and  list  1  of  the  set  will  be  found 
on  pages  142  and  1^3. 

These  instructions  requested  ten  days  work  from  each  class. 
The  children  in  Grades  II-IV  were  to  spell  500  words  at  the  rate 
of  50  per  day  and  those  in  Grades  V-VIII  were  to  spell  1,000  words 
at  the  rate  of  100  per  day.  All  spellings  were  to  be  made  without 
preliminary  study  or  any  teacher  help.  Children  in  all  grades 
were  thus  asked  to  spell  all  the  different  words,  although  it  was 
surmised  that  many  of  them  would  not  be  spelled  by  lower  grade 
children.  Preliminary  experiments,  however,  had  definitely  shown 
that  one  could  not  predict  with  a  high  degree  of  accuracy  what 
words  the  pupils  in  any  particular  grade  would  misspell.5 

4  The  reason  for  the  division  of  the  3,000  words  into  sets  of  1,000  and  lists 
of  100  will  be  understood  from  the  instructions  to  teachers.  See  page  143. 

8  A  very  simple  experiment  in  this  line  was  made  by  the  writer  with  his 
University  class  composed  of  school  superintendents  and  teachers.  List  1  of 
the  present  study  (see  page  142)  was  given  to  each  member  of  the  class  with 


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15 


It  was  therefore  deemed  necessary  to  ask  a  large  number  of 
pupils  in  each  grade  (II- VIII  inclusive)  to  attempt  to  spell  each 
word. 

After  the  3,000  words  were  printed  and  sent  out,  it  was  dis- 
covered that  there  were  twenty-three  words  duplicated.  Seventeen 
of  these  were  duplicated  in  Anderson's  original  list,  while  there 
were  six  other  duplicates  due  to  typographical  errors.  Thus  the 
list  of  3,000  was  reduced  to  2,977,  the  number  which  appears  in 
the  completed  scales. 

The  response  of  the  superintendents,  teachers  and  pupils  was 
most  gratifying.  More  than  100  school  systems  were  able  to  do 
the  work  and  send  in  the  results.  A  list  of  these  cities  and  towns 
is  given  on  page  144.  A  conservative  estimate  indicates  that 
nearly  1,400  teachers  and  45,000  children  participated  in  the  work. 


SECTION  IV 

METHOD  OF  HANDLING  THE  DATA 

This  very  generous  response  brought  in  several  times  as  much 
material  as  could  be  used.  Hence,  a  random  selection  of  papers 
on  each  list  was  made  from  all  schools  returning  data  in  any  grade. 
This  means  that  on  the  average,  about  thirty-five  cities  and  towns 
are  represented  by  pupils  in  the  determination  of  the  position  of 
each  word  in  each  scale.  At  least  200  spellings  were  used  for  each 
word  and  the  total  number  of  spellings  used  on  the  2977  words  in 
the  seven  grades  was  4,662,200. 

All  data  used  were  scored  or  re-checked  by  the  writer  or  by 
assistants  carefully  instructed  by  him.  As  has  been  found  by 
everyone  investigating  spelling,  a  number  of  arbitrary  decisions 
had  to  be  made.  Words  omitted;  words  illegibly  written;  words 

the  request  that  he  should  mark  each  word  as  follows:  H  if  in  his  judgment 
the  pupils  of  fifth  grade  would  spell  the  word  with  an  accuracy  of  from  67 
percent  to  100  percent;  M  if  they  would  spell  with  an  accuracy  of  34  percent 
to  66  percent;  and  L  if  they  would  spell  with  an  accuracy  of  33  percent  or 
less.  The  results  showed  that  in  spite  of  the  great  latitude  allowed,  but  45  per- 
cent of  the  judgments  were  correct  as  compared  with  the  results  in  this  mono- 
graph ;  31  percent  of  the  judgments  were  one  unit  wrong  and  14  percent  were 
two  units  wrong.  Two  units  wrong  means  that  words  which  pupils  spelled  with 
an  accuracy  of  67  percent  or  higher  were  judged  as  33  percent  or  lower  and 
vice  versa.  Even  when  the  nineteen  words  whose  spelling  accuracies  by  the 
pupils  fell  within  5  percent  of  the  dividing  points,  33-34  and  66-67,  were  not 
considered,  only  48  percent  of  the  judgments  were  correct;  40  percent  were 
wrong  one  unit  and  12  percent  were  wrong  two  units.  In  other  words,  when 
experienced  school  men  and  women  attempted  to  judge  the  accuracy  with 
which  children  would  spell  a  set  of  words,  they  were  more  than  10  percent 
wrong  with  more  than  half  the  cases  and  more  than  33  percent  wrong  in  12 
to  14  percent  of  the  cases. 


16  The  Iowa  Spelling  Scales 

substituted  due  to  misunderstanding  the  pronunciation;  wrong 
form  of  homonyms;  changes  in  number  and  tense  except  when 
the  change  involved  an  addition  to,  but  no  change  in,  the  form 
given  were  all  counted  wrong.  But  one  form  of  spelling  for  a 
word  was  considered  right  except  the  few  words  for  which 
Webster 's  New  International  Dictionary  lists  two  spellings  as 
equally  correct. 

SECTION  V 

ASSUMED  DISTRIBUTION  OF  ABILITY 

It  was  stated  in  Section  II  that  part  of  the  problem  was  the 
evaluation  of  the  words  which  had  been  scientifically  selected. 
When  the  percent  of  accuracy  of  spelling  has  been  determined, 
one  form  of  evaluation  has  been  made,  but  this  is  not  entirely 
satisfactory,  as  will  be  shown  later. 

NORMAL  PROBABILITY  CURVE  ASSUMED 

Figure  1  presents  a  typical  normal  probability  or  normal  fre- 
quency curve.  The  curve  has  the  mass  of  its  area  in  the  central 
part  and  but  a  small  part  near  the  ends. 


FIGURE  1 

This  form  of  distribution  has  been  found  to  hold  true  in  such 
human  traits  as  height,  weight,  length  of  arms,  etc.  The  great 
majority  of  adult  men  cluster  closely  around  the  mean  height  or 
weight  of  all  adult  men  while  a  decreasing  number  divide  about 
equally  in  varying  above  and  below  this  mean.  Only  a  few  vary 
widely,  but  those  who  do  are  about  equally  divided  as  to  the 
direction  of  their  variation. 

Does  this  normal  frequency  distribution  hold  true  in  mental 
as  well  as  physical  traits  ? 


The  Iowa  Spelling  Scales 


17 


It  is  a  well  recognized  fact  that  people  with  mediocre  ability 
are  much  more  numerous  than  the  dull  or  the  brilliant,  and  that 
the  very  dull  and  very  brilliant  are  few  indeed.  Hence,  common 
observation  would  suggest  that  general  mental  ability  is  distrib- 
uted in  the  same  manner  as  physical  traits.  Does  this  hold  true, 
also,  of  the  distribution  of  special  abilities  such  as  spelling, 
arithmetic,  language,  etc? 

The  various  scales  for  measuring  special  abilities  such  as  the 
Buckingham  and  Ayres  Spelling,  Woody 's  Arithmetic  (30), 
Green's  Organization  (31),  and  Trabue's  Language  (32),  have 
been  developed  upon  the  assumption  that  special  abilities  are  so 
distributed.  The  best  proof  perhaps  that  the  assumption  is  valid, 
is  that  if  the  assumption  is  made  the  results  that  follow  are  in 
very  close  agreement  with  the  known  facts.  For  these  reasons,  it 
was  decided  to  make  the  same  assumption  in  the  present  study. 


SOME  PROPERTIES  OF  THE  CURVE 

The  mathematical  properties  of  the  normal  probability  curve 
have  been  very  carefully  and  elaborately  worked  out  on  two 
bases,  namely,  the  Probable  Error  (P.  E.)  or  mean  deviation,  and 
the  Sigma  (o-)  or  standard  deviation. 

The  Probable  Error,  as  a  function  of  the  normal  probability 
curve,  is  that  perpendicular  distance  from  the  mean  at  which,  if 
an  ordinate  is  erected,  the  surface  included  between  this  ordinate, 
the  curve,  the  mean  ordinate,  and  the  base  line  includes  25  percent 
of  the  surface  included  by  the  whole  curve  and  the  base  line.6  In 


6  In  theory  the  curve  and  base  never  meet,  the  lines  being  in  asymptote,  but 
for  practical  purposes  they  are  considered  as  meeting  at  some  given  distance 
from  the  mean.  It  is  in  this  sense  that  we  may  speak  of  the  surface  included 
between  the  curve  and  the  base. 


18  The  Iowa  Spelling  Scales 

Figure  2,  ob  is  1  P.  B.  distance  and  bcyo  includes  25  percent  of 
the  surface  x  y  x. 

Likewise,  Sigma  or  the  standard  deviation,  as  a  function  of 
the  normal  probability  curve,  is  the  perpendicular  distance  to  the 
mean  ordinate  from  the  point  on  the  curve  where  it  changes  from 
concave  to  convex;  mn  in  Figure  2  represents  this  distance. 

Both  Probable  Error  and  Sigma,  being  functions  of  the  normal 
probability  curve,  bear  constant  relationship  to  the  curve  re- 
gardless of  the  variability  of  base  and  altitude.  Through  easily 
accessible  tables,  the  amount  of  area  included  by  the  curve,  mean, 
base,  and  an  ordinate  erected  at  any  given  Probable  Error  or 
Sigma  distance,  can  be  found.7 

Buckingham,  in  the  development  of  his  spelling  scale,  used 
Probable  Error  and  arbitrarily  broke  off  the  curve  (which  theo- 
retically forever  approaches  the  base  but  never  meets  it)  at 
±  4.6  P.  E.  This  disregards  but  about  one-tenth  of  one  percent 
of  the  total  surface  on  either  side  of  the  mean. 

Ayres,  in  making  his  scale,  used  Sigma  and  arbitrarily  broke 
the  extremities  at  ±  2.5  o-  which  disregards  about  six-tenths  of  one 
percent  at  each  end. 

After  considerable  experimentation,  the  writer  decided  to  fol- 
low Ayres  and  use  the  ±  2.5  o-  curve  for  the  following  reasons : 

1.  In  practical  schoolroom  work  it  is  doubtful  if  it  is  worth 
while  to  differentiate  spelling  differences  of  less  than  one  percent. 
To  extend  the  curve  beyond  —  2 . 5  cr  which  is  approximately  the 
same  as  ±  3.75  P.  E.,  necessitates  this  finer  differentiation. 

2.  Since  893  words8  are  common  to  the  Ayres  Scale  and  this 
study,  the  use  of  the  same  form  of  distribution  would  permit  com- 
parisons not  possible  otherwise. 

PLACING  WORDS  IN  THE  SCALE  • 

Having  assumed  the  normal  probability  curve,  and  having  de- 
cided upon  the  measure  of  variability  to  use  and  the  limits  at 
which  the  curve  should  be  arbitrarily  broken  off,  the  next  prob- 
lem was  to  decide  on  the  number  of  steps  into  which  to  divide 
the  base.  The  spelling  accuracies  varied  in  most  grades  from  at 
or  near  zero  on  some  words  to  at  or  near  100  percent  on  others. 
That  is,  there  were  some  words  which  children  of  any  grade 
spelled  with  perfect  or  nearly  perfect  accuracy  while  there  were 
other  words  which  were  missed  by  all  or  nearly  all  the  children. 

7  For  further  discussion  of  the  theory  of  the  normal  probability  curve,  the 
reader  is  referred  to:    Rugg,  H.  O.,  Statistical  Method  Applied  to  Education, 
Ch.  VII. 

8  There  are  893  words  which  appear  in  both  studies  which  are  identical  in 
form  while  there  are  25  others  which  differ  in  suffix  only.     Of  these,  10  differ 
in  the  suffix  "e-d"  and  5  in  the  suffix  "a." 


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19 


In  theory  the  number  of  steps  or  divisions  into  which  the  base 
may  be  divided  is  infinite,  but  practical  considerations  limit  the 
number  to  but  a  few.  Since  our  assumption  of  normal  distribu- 
tion predicates  that  the  number  of  very  good  and  very  poor 
spellers  are  few,  it  is  necessary  to  make  finer  discriminations  be- 
tween those  percentages  lying  near  the  extremes  of  the  scale  than 
between  those  lying  near  the  middle.  The  larger  the  number  of 
steps  or  divisions  into  which  the  base  is  divided,  the  finer  the  dis- 
tinctions drawn  all  along  the  scale,  but  especially  is  this  true  near 
the  extremes.  As  has  been  stated,  however,  a  finer  discrimination 
than  whole  percentages  can  hardly  be  justified  in  an  instrument 
designed  for  practical  schoolroom  measurement.  On  the  other 
hand,  but  few  divisions  would  tend  to  cover  up  differences  which 
should  be  revealed. 

Again,  after  much  experimentation  it  was  decided  that  the 
division  of  the  base  line  into  twenty-five  equal  steps,  as  Ayres 
did,  gave  the  best  results  since  it  permits  single  whole  percentage 
discrimination  of  differences  near  the  extremes  and  does  not  group 
together  too  large  percentage  differences  in  the  middle. 

If  there  were  an  equal  number  of  each  grade  of  ability,  ex- 
cellent, good,  fair,  poor,  and  very  poor;  that  is,  if  the  frequency 
surface  were  a  rectangle,  then  the  percentage  valuation  would  be 
very  satisfactory.  But  we  know  this  is  not  true  and  have  assumed 
the  distribution  to  be  that  of  the  probability  curve  instead.  There- 
fore, words  which  differ  by  a  single  percent  in  the  accuracy  of 
spelling  do  not  always  represent  equal  differences  in  difficulty. 
Reference  to  Figure  1  will  show  quickly  that  the  linear  distance 
between  two  ordinates  so  erected  as  to  include  between  them,  the 
base  and  the  curve,  one  percent  of  the  whole  surface  will  differ 
much  depending  upon  whether  the  ordinates  are  erected  near  the 
median  or  near  the  extremes.  One  of  these  twenty-five  parts  into 
which  we  have  divided  the  base  will  underlie  approximately  nine 
percent  of  the  surface  if  located  at  the  median,  about  four  per- 
cent if  located  midway  between  the  median  and  the  extremes  and 
only  one  percent  if  located  near  the  extremes.  It  is  this  recognition 
of  the  type  of  distribution  of  ability  which  makes  the  percentage 
evaluation  unsatisfactory. 

On  the  basis  of  the  accuracy  of  the  children's  spellings,  each 
word  was  then  placed  in  its  proper  step  or  position  on  the  scale. 
Because  it  was  thought  that  students  of  experimental  education 
might  care  to  have  the  finer  distinctions  which  are  not  afforded 
by  the  step  position  alone,  it  was  decided  to  keep  the  percentage 
groups  within  the  steps  of  the  scale  separate  and  designate  the 
exact  percentage  accuracy  with  which  each  word  was  spelled  by 
the  children. 


20  The  Iowa  Spelling  Scales 

If  the  difficulty  of  words  be  defined  in  terms  of  differences  in 
position  among  the  steps  of  the  scale,  then  the  words  which  lie 
in  a  single  step  are  of  approximately  equal  difficulty  and  the 
words  in  one  step  are  as  much  more  difficult  than  those  in  the  pre- 
vious step  as  the  words  in  any  other  step  are  more  difficult  than 
those  in  the  step  preceding  it.  That  is,  the  degree  of  difficulty  be- 
tween steps  is  constant  throughout  the  length  of  the  scale. 

It  will  be  perceived,  of  course,  that  the  difficulty  of  spelling  a 
word  is  thus  defined  in  terms  of  the  accuracy  with  which  children 
in  a  given  grade  responded  to  the  word  under  the  conditions  de- 
scribed in  this  monograph.  It  has  nothing  to  do  with  the  inherent 
difficulties  of  teaching  or  learning  the  word  except  to  the  extent 
that  these  may  be  reflected  in  the  accuracy  of  the  spellings  of  the 
pupils. 

Throughout  this  monograph,  spelling  ability  is  spoken  of  in 
terms  of  efficiency  of  performance.  The  only  measure  of  ability 
which  we  have  for  mental  traits  is  in  terms  of  performance.  This 
is  common  usage  and  we  believe  it  is  perfectly  justifiable.  We 
measure  ability  to  read,  ability  to  add,  ability  to  hit  a  target, 
ability  to  lift  a  weight,  etc.,  in  terms  of  performance.  In  all  these 
activities,  we  find  by  measuring  a  large  number  of  cases  that  a  few 
are  very  good,  a  few  very  poor  and  the  majority  of  all  cases 
occupy  an  intermediate  position.  In  other  words,  these  various 
abilities  distribute  themselves  about  in  the  form  of  the  normal 
probability  surface  of  frequency.  It  has  been  the  assumption 
upon  which  these  scales  have  been  built,  that  spelling  ability, 
ability  to  do  this  particular  thing  under  the  given  conditions,  is 
distributed  in  this  same  manner.  The  scales  do  not  concern 
themselves  with  the  child's  inherent  capacity  to  learn  to  do,  or 
the  difficulties  inherent  in  the  words  themselves. 


SECTION  VI 

USE  OF  THE  SCALES 

These  scales  lend  themselves  to  at  least  three  uses,  namely, 
(1)  measurement  of  status  of  spelling  ability,  (2)  measurement 
of  growth  in  spelling  ability,  and  (3)  a  minimal  spelling  list  for. 
teaching  purposes. 

Each  word  having  been  placed  in  the  scales  on  the  basis  of  the 
accuracy  with  which  children  in  the  respective  grade  spelled  it 
when  presented  in  ordinary  list  form,  any  teacher,  principal,  or 
superintendent  may  use  the  scale  to  determine  how  well  his  own 
class  or  school  can  spell  any  group  of  these  words  in  comparison 
with  the  children  of  Iowa  as  a  whole.  In  making  this  comparison, 
the  following  things  should  be  remembered. 


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21 


1.  That  to  secure  comparable  results,  the  words  should  be 
pronounced  in   accordance  with  the  original  instructions    (See 
page  143)   and  the  words  scored  according  to  the  criteria  stated 
on  page  15. 

2.  That  these  spellings  were  from  pupils  who  had  on  "the 
average  completed  approximately  one-half  of  the  year 's  work  for 
the  grade.    Tests  given  at  the  beginning  or  end  of  the  year's  work 
should  be  interpreted  accordingly. 

3.  That  to  secure  equally  reliable  results,  a  much  larger  list 
of  words  must  be  used  with  a  small  group  of  pupils  than  with  a 
large  group. 

4.  That  in  general,  words  located  near  the  middle  of  the 
scale,  those  with  an  accuracy  of  35  percent-65  percent,  are  prob- 
ably more  reliable  for  measuring  purposes  than  those  near  the 
extremes. 

Words  spelled  with  100  percent  accuracy  furnish  no  test  be- 
cause all  the  children  have  mastered  them.  Some  of  them  could 
undoubtedly  spell  much  more  difficult  words.  Likewise,  words 
which  are  missed  by  all  the  children  furnish  no  test  since  we  have 
no  means  of  knowing  how  much  too  difficult  they  are.  Since  there 
are  many  possibilities  of  wrong  spelling  against  one  possible  right 
form,  it  is  probable  that  50  percent  represents  the  maximum  point 
of  critical  measure  of  a  group.  This  conforms  with  the  experi- 
mental work  of  Otis.  (33) 


MEASUREMENT  OF  STATUS  OF  ABILITY 

In  using  the  scales  for  measuring  class  and  school  status,  it 
should  be  kept  in  mind  that  words  of  differing  percents  within 
a  step  are  of  approximately  equal  difficulty  but  to  equalize  even 
small  differences,  a  random  selection  of  words  from  all  the  per- 
centage groups  in  a  step  should  be  made  and  these  words  pro- 
nounced as  an  ordinary  spelling  test  without  instruction  or  pre- 
vious study.  If  the  average  of  the  class  is  the  same  as  the  average 
for  the  step  or  within  the  limits  of  the  percents  listed  under  one 
step,  the  class  has  a  spelling  status  on  these  words  about  the 
same  as  the  children  of  like  grade  in  Iowa.  If  the  class  average 
reaches  a  percent  higher  than  the  highest  listed  under  the  step, 
the  class  is  above  average;  if  below  the  lowest  listed  under  the 
step,  it  is  below  average. 

A  word  of  caution  is  perhaps  in  place.  The  teacher  in  using 
these  scales  must  remember  that  the  fundamental  assumption 
upon  which  the  scales  have  been  built  is  that  spelling  ability  dis- 
tributes itself  according  to  the  normal  probability  surface  of  fre- 
quency. It  must  not  be  expected,  therefore,  that  all  the  children 
in  her  class  will  spell  all  the  words  in  a  given  test,  even  though 


22  The  Iowa  Spelling  Scales 

the  words  are  chosen  from  a  single  step  on  the  scale,  with  the 
same  percent  of  accuracy.  A  wide  range  of  variation  is  to  be 
expected  and  a  very  narrow  range  would  be  quite  unusual. 
Further,  the  words  in  a  step  have  been  placed  there  as  of  approx- 
imate equality  on  the  basis  of  a  large  number  of  spellings  and  it 
is  not  to  be  expected  that,  with  a  small  group  such  as  a  class,  the 
accuracy  of  spelling  on  each  of  the  words  will  be  equal. 

MEASUREMENT  OF  GKOWTH  OF  ABILITY 

In  measurement  of  growth,  two  objects  may  be  distinguished, 
(1)  the  measurement  of  growth  or  change  due  to  a  term  or  year 
of  school  work,  and  (2)  the  measurement  of  growth  or  change 
due  to  the  use  of  a  special  method,  device,  or  time  variation  during 
a  greater  or  less  period. 

The  first  measurement  will  probably  be  the  one  of  most  sig- 
nificance to  teachers  and  superintendents,  and  gross  differences 
will  be  of  greatest  interest.  For  this  reason,  the  differences  may 
well  be  considered  mainly  in  terms  of  step  changes. 

The  second  measurement  will  be  of  primary  interest  to  special 
supervisors  and  students  of  experimental  education.  Since  these 
persons  are  interested  in  more  refined  results,  they  should  con- 
sider the  individual  percentage  groups  within  the  step.  Whole 
step  differences  may  frequently  be  larger  than  the  changes 
brought  about  by  the  conditions  involved  in  the  experiment. 

A  MINIMAL  SPELLING  LIST 

This  list  presents  with  a  high  degree  of  accuracy  the  words 
which  people  use  most  frequently  in  written  correspondence.  For 
this  reason  it  is  highly  important  that  pupils  in  the  elementary 
school  learn  to  spell  these  words.  By  using  the  words  of  the 
scale  as  the  material  for  regular  class  instruction,  teachers  may 
note  class  improvement,  but  they  must  recognize  that  as  a  scale- 
it  is  becoming  less  and  less  valuable  as  a  measuring  instrument. 
However,  the  writer  agrees  completely  with  Ayres  when  he  says, 
"Probably  the  scale  will  have  served  its  greatest  usefulness  in  any 
locality  when  the  school  children  have  mastered  these  words  so 
thoroughly  that  the  scale  has  become  quite  useless  as  a  measuring 
instrument."  (34) 

SECTION  VII 

LIMITATIONS  OF  THE  SCALES 

The  scales  presented  herewith  are  subject  to  certain  limita- 
tions, some  of  which  will  be  discussed  in  this  section. 


The  Iowa  Spelling  Scales 


23 


NUMBER  OF  SPELLINGS  USED 

In  general,  with  a  random  selection  the  reliability  of  results 
increases  as  the  square  root  of  the  number  of  cases  involved.  In 
the  following  scales,  the  number  of  spellings  on  each  word  in  each 
grade  was  200  or  more.  This  number  was  selected  as  being  a  suf- 
ficient number  to  give  a  degree  of  reliability  acceptable  in  this 
type  of  measurement. 

However,  in  order  to  ascertain  the  range  of  variability  which 
might  be  expected  on  the  basis  of  200  spellings  in  comparison  with 
a  larger  number,  700  spellings  were  selected  at  random  on  a  list 
of  100  words.  The  accuracy  of  spelling  on  each  word  was  checked 
out  per  100  spellings  and  three  combinations  of  200  each  were 
compared  with  the  accuracy  of  700.  The  spelling  accuracy  of  the 
100  words  in  the  700  spellings  varied  from  100  percent  for  the 
three  easiest  words  to  11,  15  and  20  percent  respectively  on  the 
three  most  difficult  words. 

Since  the  words  were  to  be  placed  in  the  scales  in  terms  of 
steps  of  equal  value  as  stated  previously,  it  was  thought  that  this 
examination  of  reliability  of  placement  should  be  in  terms  of  steps 
rather  than  in  terms  of  percent.  The  total  scale  was  divided 
arbitrarily  into  three-step  groups  on  each  side  of  the  middle  step. 
Then  the  three  on  each  side  adjacent  to  the  middle  step  and  this 
middle  step  were  thrown  together  since  there  seemed  no  valid 
reason  for  keeping  them  separate,  the  percents  in  each  step  being 
symmetrically  placed  above  and  below  the  middle  step.  When  the 
100  words  were  distributed  according  to  this  grouping  on  the 
basis  of  accuracies  obtained  from  the  700  spellings  of  each  word, 
it  was  found  that  there  were  12  words  in  the  easiest  group,  32  in 
the  next,  and  so  on  as  shown  in  column  four  of  Table  II. 

Next  the  accuracy  for  each  word  on  the  basis  of  each  of  the 
first,  second,  and  third  200  spellings  was  taken  from  its  accuracy 

TABLE  IV.  AVERAGE  DEVIATION  OF  SPELLING  ACCURACY  IN 
TERMS  OF  SCALE  STEP  OF  RANDOM  SAMPLINGS  OF  200  SPELL- 
INGS FROM  THE  ACCURACIES  OF  700  SPELLINGS. 


Accuracy 
in 
Percents 
on  700 
Spellings 

Number 
of  Scale 
Steps 
Within 
These 
Limits 

Average 
Range 
in 
Percent 
Included 
in  One 
Step 

Number 
of 
Words 
in 
Group 

Average  Deviation  in 
Scale  Step 

First 
200 

Second 
200 

Third 
200 

~^42 
.63 
.41 
.34 
.93 

98-100 
91-97 
77-90 
24-76 
10-23 

3 
3 
3 

7 
3 

1.00 
2.33 
4.67 
7.57 
4.67 

12 
32 
20 
33 
3 

.42 
.55 
.49 
.38 
.50 

.42 
.60 
.69 
.27 

.07 

24 


The  Iowa  Spelling  Scales 


on  the  basis  of  the  total  700  and  the  average  difference  of  devia- 
tion of  all  words  within  the  group  was  determined.  This  average 
deviation  in  terms  of  percent  was  then  converted  into  average 
deviation  in  terms  of  scale  step  by  dividing  by  the  average  range 
in  percent  included  in  one  step. 

From  these  data  it  is  concluded  that  since  the  average  var- 
iation is  less  than  0.7  of  a  step  in  all  cases  but  one,  and  is  0.5  of  a 
step  or  less  in  more  than  half  the  cases,  200  spellings  is  amply 
sufficient  for  the  degree  of  accuracy  required  in  placing  the 
words  in  a  scale  of  this  type. 

DISTRIBUTION  OF  SPELLINGS 

It  may  be  considered  a  limitation  on  the  scales  that  all  spellings 
used  were  secured  from  Iowa  school  children.  The  answer  to  this 
is  two-fold:  (1)  that  the  scales  were  designed  primarily  for  ser- 
vice to  the  school  people  of  the  state  of  Iowa.  From  this  stand- 
point this  limitation  becomes  a  positive  recommendation.  (2)  On 
the  basis  of  a  state- wide  study  of  spelling,  involving  8818  children 
in  Grades  III  to  VIII  inclusive,  on  spelling  tests  devised  from  the 
Ayres  scale,  the  school  children  of  Iowa  spell  with  about  the  same 
average  accuracy  as  children  in  the  86  cities  involved  in  the  Ayres 
study.  This  is  shown  by  Table  V. 

TABLE  V.     COMPARATIVE    SPELLING    RESULTS:       AYRES    SCALE 
AND  27  IOWA  CITIES.     20  WORDS,  LIST  SPELLING. 


Grades 

Third 

Fourth 

Fifth 

Sixth 

Seventh 

Eighth 

Number  of  Children 

1620 

1635 

1841 

1338 

1228 

1156 

Iowa  Average  Scores 

73 

85 

74 

83 

77 

86 

Ayres  Standard 

73 

88 

73 

84 

73 

84 

The  table  is  read  as  follows :  1620  third-grade  children  spelled 
the  20  words  with  an  average  accuracy  of  73  percent  and  the 
Ayres  standard  for  these  words  is  also  73  percent ;  1635  fourth- 
grade  Iowa  children  spelled  the  20  words  with  an  average  ac- 
curacy of  85  percent  while  the  Ayres  standard  on  these  words  is 
88  percent.  The  number  of  children  and  the  average  accuracy 
for  Iowa  children  and  the  Ayres  standard  for  the  other  grades 
are  read  in  the  same  manner. 

WORDS  GIVEN  IN  LIST  FORM 

It  is  recognized  that  the  spelling  of  words  in  list  form  does  not 
give  an  exact  measure  of  the  accuracy  with  which  children  will 
spell  words  in  their  ordinary  daily  work.  This  condition  is  per- 
haps more  closely  approximated  by  a  timed-dictation  test.  In 
neither  case,  however,  can  we  be  certain  that  the  ability  displayed 


The  Iowa  Spelling  Scales 


25 


is  exactly  the  same  as  that  which  will  function  when  the  child  is 
writing  spontaneously.  These  scales  do  present  the  accuracy  with 
which  children  did  spell  these  words  when  presented  under  the 
conditions  described  in  the  monograph. 

WORDS  OF  VARYING  DIFFICULTY  PRESENTED  IN  THE  SAME  LIST 

Making  up  the  list  of  words  on  the  basis  of  approximately 
equal  distribution  of  words  of  high,  median,  and  low  frequency  in 
written  correspondence  necessarily  brought  into  the  same  list, 
words  of  widely  varying  difficulty.  How  far  this  tends  to  produce 
an  inaccurate  result  in  the  spelling  of  the  common  words  is  not 
definitely  known. 

Due  to  the  fact  that  23  words  were  duplicated  in  the  lists  sent 
out,  it  is  possible  to  make  some  comparison  between  the  accuracy 
with  which  words  were  spelled  when  they  occurred  early  in  the  list, 
preceded  by  words  which  were  comparatively  easy,  and  when  the 
same  words  occurred  late  in  the  list,  preceded  by  words  of  greater 
difficulty.  Thirteen  of  these  23  words  involved  this  situation  of 
appearing  one  time  rather  early  in  the  list  and  a  second  time  rather 
late.  A  comparison  of  the  accuracy  with  which  the  children  in 
each  of  the  different  grades  spelled  the  word  when  it  occurred 
early  in  the  list  with  the  accuracy  with  which  it  was  spelled  by 
children  of  the  same  grade  when  it  occurred  late  in  the  list,  showed 
two  things : 

1.  That  in  all  grades  there  was  a  somewhat  higher  average 
accuracy  on  the  words  when  they  occurred  early  in  the  list,  though 
some  words  showed  the  opposite  situation.     The  median  increase 
in  accuracy  in  the  seven  grades  on  words  occurring  early  in  the 
list  over  the  accuracy  on  the  same  words  when  occurring  late  in 
the  list  was  but  2  percent.     This  difference  in  accuracy  was 
greatest  in  the  third  and  fourth  grades,  though  a  priori  judgment 
had  decided  that  this  factor  would  most  affect  second-grade  chil- 
dren and  have  less  influence  thereafter  from  grade  to  grade. 

2.  The  average  difference  of  spelling  accuracy  in  these  two 
grades  which  seemed  to  be  most  greatly  influenced  by  this  factor 
was  practically  identical  with  the  range  of  percents  included 
in  a  single  step  in  the  portion  of  the  scale  in  which  these  words 
appear. 

Since  these  words  were  placed  in  the  scales  in  an  intermediate 
position  determined  by  the  average  accuracy  of  spelling  in  the 
two  positions,  it  is  quite  certain  that  no  word  is  misplaced  more 
than  a  single  step.  It  is  probable  that  half  the  words  are  mis- 
placed less  than  half  a  step  (that  is,  not  at  all  in  the  scale)  due  to 
this  factor. 


26  The  Iowa  Spelling  Scales 

No  ZERO  POINT  ON  THE  SCALE 

These  scales  in  common  with  the  Ayres  scale,  place  the  words 
on  the  basis  of  relative  difficulty  rather  than  absolute  difficulty 
from  a  point  which  would  indicate  no  ability  at  all.  Because  of 
this  limitation,  it  is  not  possible  to  state  that  words  appearing  in 
any  single  step  are  so  many  ' '  times  as ' '  difficult  as  words  appear- 
ing in  some  other  step.  It  is  only  possible  to  state  that  words  in 
any  step  are  as  much  more  difficult  than  the  words  in  the  step 
preceding  as  the  words  in  any  other  step  are  more  difficult  than 
the  words  in  the  step  preceding  that.  In  other  words,  the  inter- 
step  difficulty  is  approximately  equal  throughout  the  scale. 

From  the  standpoint  of  practical  usage  the  lack  of  an  absolute 
zero-point  presents  no  serious  objection.  In  the  measurement  of 
progress,  school  people  are  interested  in  making  comparison  with 
norms  and  with  previous  status  rather  than  in  determining  "times 
as ' '  relationships.  For  this  reason,  a  zero-point  was  not  considered 
of  sufficient  importance  to  justify  the  large  amount  of  additional 
work  which  would  have  been  necessary  to  have  secured  it. 

SECTION  VIII 

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

1.  Fourteenth,  Sixteenth  and  Seventeenth  Yearbooks  of  the  Na- 
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2.  Eighteenth  Yearbook  of  the  National  Society  for  the  Study  of 
Education.     Pt.  II,  1919. 

3.  Knowles,  Rev.  J.     The  London  Point  System  of  Reading  for 
the  Blind.     London,  1904. 

4.  Eldridge,  R.  C.     Six  Thousand  Common  English  Words,  Ni- 
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5.  Ayres,  L.  P.     The  Spelling  Vocabularies  of  Personal  and  Bus- 
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6.  Jones,  W.  F.    Concrete  Investigation  of  the  Material  of  English 
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8.  Nicholson,   Anne    (Editor.)     A  Speller  for  the   Use  of  the 
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27 


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17.  Ibid.     p.  94. 

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21.  Ayres,  L.  P.      Measurement  of  Ability  in  Spelling.    Russell 
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22.  Ibid.     p.  8. 

23.  Ibid.     p.  11. 

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34.  Ayres,  L.  P.     Op.  cit.  p.  41. 


SECTION  IX 
THE   IOWA    SPELLING    SCALE 

GRADE  II 


GRADE  II 


STEP  5  —  94% 

in 

get 

singing 

95% 

let 

play 

they 

day 

that 

some 

with 

it 

82% 

told 

65% 

94% 

did 

75% 

age 

and 

look 

ball 

am 

is 

so 

cannot 

box 

me 

tell 

hat 

came 

ring 

going 

STEP  6—92% 

STEP  9  —  79% 

this 
74% 

hill 
its 

93% 

51% 

them 

like 

he 

have 

wind 

mad 

to-day 

no 

73% 

Pig 

92% 

up 

cold 

playing 

are 

will 

door 

red 

at 
91% 

50% 
big 

girl 
lot 

ship 
thank 

can 

but 

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genuine 

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anticipating 

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STEP  9—79% 

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71% 


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such 
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taking 

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cloth 
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59% 
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58% 
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world 

57% 
agree 
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anyone 


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anything 
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56% 


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closed 

unless 

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wagon 

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expected 

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THE   IOWA   SPELLING    SCALE 
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STEP  1—100% 

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coal 
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eat 
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felt 
filling 
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girl 
glass 
grass 
ground 
grove 
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hour 
house 
hunting 
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kid 

landing 
law 
lived 
low 
mad 
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meat 
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name 

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army 

sold 

paint 

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deal 
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depend 

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only 

dream 

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pack 
packing 

enough 
feed 
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paying 

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people 

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picking 

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pink 

heavy 

90% 

planted 

high 

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plate 

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both 

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brush 

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burn 

printed 
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lunch 

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matter 

classes 

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meet 

club 

self 

mostly 

content 

September 

moved 

county 

shipment 
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music 
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sickness 

order 

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smart 

oven 

fear 

snowing 

own 

file 

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garden 

gift 


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hang 

harder 

harvest 

here 

hit 

holding 

income 

itself 

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listed 

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marking 

nation 

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neck 

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November 
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outfit 

person 

pure 

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rank 

rate 

recover 

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remark 

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retain 

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shape 

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yesterday 

89% 
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dollar 
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duty 

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month 

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deliver 

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84% 

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85 


dancing 

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movement 

74% 

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election 

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THE    IOWA    SPELLING    SCALE 


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STEP  3—98% 

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pride 

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transportation 

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finger 

tread 

fuel 

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statement 

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guide 

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holiday 

94% 

higher 

tax 

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household 

term 

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human 

thereof 

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lie 

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135 


style 

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salary 

machinery 

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majority 

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surface 

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92% 

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frequently 

agreed 

weigh 

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Spelling  Scales 

137 

slippery 

crowded 

83% 

illustration 

superior 

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acknowledge 

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telegram 

fabric 

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furniture 

advertise 

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STEP  9—79% 

positive 

desiring 

81% 

STEP  8—84% 

premium 

enrolled 

acceptance 

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handkerchief 
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84% 
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beginning 
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85% 

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patron 

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practical 

mamma 

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exhibition 

regularly 

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exclusively 

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organization 

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prosperous 

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quantity 

specification 

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reliability 

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assistance 
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STEP  10—73% 

response 
separate 

73% 

STEP  11—66% 
69% 

bass 

76% 

aren  't 

acquainted 

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certificate 

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68% 

legislation 

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75% 

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72% 
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announcement 
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corporation 

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usually 

71% 
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remittance 

resource 
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66% 

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77% 
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74% 
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quantities 

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receipt 

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convenience 

executive 

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139 

extremely 
financial 

55% 
enthusiastic 

53% 
pneumonia 

43% 
guarantee 

inquiries 

lieutenant 

referred 

rheumatism 

literature 

unusually 

52% 

4*% 

representative 

64% 
calendar 
leisure 
opportunity 
solicit 

55% 
all  right 
alumni 
anticipate 
assessment 
candidacy 
continuous 

satisfactorily 

51% 
bulletin 
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grateful 
referring 

appendicitis  - 
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41% 
conveniently 
enthusiasm 
guaranteed 

63% 

fundamental 

50% 

occasionally 

annually 
practically 
semester 
superintendent 

geometry 
girlie 
physician 
possess 
thorough 

apparatus 
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judgment 
rec'd 

39% 
accommodate 
peculiarities 
38% 
schedule 

57% 

49% 

STEP  12  —  58% 

thoroughly 

efficiency 

62% 
client 
convenient 
council 
immense 
permanent 
principle 

61% 

56% 
accompanying 
acquaintance 
auntie 
originally 
recommendation 

55% 
anticipating 
circuit 

inst. 
remembrance 

48% 
grippe 
prior 
47% 
affectionately 

46% 

STEP  15—34% 

57% 
definitely 
fraternally 
55% 
anniversary 

zephyr 

accredited 
characteristic 

disappoint 
equipped 

politician 
tuberculosis 

55% 
chautauqua 

courteous 

immediately 

X-ray 

losing 
scientific 

STEP  13—50% 

STEP  14  —  42% 

51% 
canvass 

60% 
analysis 

54% 
confirmation 

45% 
affidavit 

STEP  16—27% 

correspondence 
mortgage 
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materially 
recommend 
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44% 
ingredients 
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28% 
phosphorus 

APPENDIX 


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EXHIBIT  A 

Set  I,  list  1  illustrates  the  form  in  which  words  were  sent  to  the 
various  schools. 


1  and 

2  me 

3  some 

4  think 

5  say 

6  each 

7  way 

8  great 

9  put 

10  picture 

11  market 

12  folk 

13  real 

14  sorry 

15  leave 

16  aunt 

17  credit 

18  supply 

19  street 

20  profit 

21  begin 

22  net 

23  May 

24  brought 

25  Oct. 


Iowa  Spelling  List — 1-1 


26  recently 

27  pupil 

28  correct 

29  walk 

30  Dr. 

31  happen 

32  top 

33  window 

34  shipping 

35  wife 

36  standard 

37  printed 

38  fifty 

39  cream 

40  recommend 

41  prior 

42  crowd 

43  forwarded 

44  cool 

45  rush 

46  represented 

47  publication 

48  blow 

49  fixed 

50  newspaper 


51 

fraternally 

76 

attractive 

52 

broke 

77 

management 

53 

cake 

78 

toy 

54 

blood 

79 

singing 

55 

renewal 

80 

forenoon 

56 

confident 

81 

durable 

57 

58 

colored 
roll 

82 
83 

per  cent 
kitten 

59 

clock 

84 

plow 

60 

forced 

85 

faster 

61 

outfit 

86 

breaking 

62 

thorough 

87 

brand 

63 

waste 

88 

soap 

64 

grown 

89 

calendar 

65 

stick 

90 

anniversary 

66 

deep 

91 

extreme 

67 

68 

organized 
exceptional 

92 
93 

possess 
kinder 

69 

weigh 

94 

slept 

70 

applicant 

95 

dice 

71 

porch 

96 

federal 

72 

staying 

97 

insert 

73 

instructed 

98 

likewise 

74 

slightly 

99 

identify 

75 

tie 

100 

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EXHIBIT  B 

Instructions  sent  with  spelling  material  to  all  cooperating 
teachers. 

INSTRUCTIONS  TO  TEACHERS 

This  work  is  a  part  of  a  state  wide  effort  to  grade  a  list  of  most  commonly 
used  words.  The  success  of  the  work  will  depend  upon  the  accuracy  with 
which  you  and  all  other  teachers  follow  these  directions. 

Please  have  your  pupils  spell  one  list  each  day;  100  words  if  you  are 
teaching  grades  V  to  VIII  and  50  words  if  you  are  teaching  grades  II,  III  or 
IV.  Pronounce  each  word  distinctly  and  make  sure  that  each  child  under- 
stands the  word.  Give  a  short  illustrative  sentence  in  all  cases  where  different 
words  have  the  same  or  similar  pronunciation.  The  words  are  to  be  given  with- 
out previous  study  or  drill  of  any  kind.  Give  plenty  of  time  but  no  assistance. 

Have  the  work  done  with  pencil,  on  paper  of  uniform  size,  writing  two 
columns  on  a  page  but  do  not  write  on  both  sides  of  the  paper.  The  child 
should  write  his  name,  sex,  age,  and  grade  and  the  name  of  his  school  and 
city  at  the  top  of  each  sheet.  Pronounce  the  words  in  order  numbered  and 
have  the  pupils  number  the  words  as  they  write  them.  This  is  very  important. 

Impress  upon  the  children  that  in  case  of  an  error,  they  are  to  draw  a  line 
through  the  word  and  write  it  correctly  above  or  beside  the  misspelled  word. 
Words  in  which  one  letter  has  been  written  over  another  will  be  counted  wrong, 
as  it  is  almost  impossible  to  know  which  was  the  child's  final  decision  on  the 
spelling. 

It  is  recognized  that  in  the  lower  grades  many  of  these  words  are  quite 
unfamiliar  to  the  children  and  that  a  large  proportion  of  the  pupils  will  not 
be  able  to  spell  most  of  the  words  in  the  list.  The  only  way,  however,  to  find 
out  what  words  the  children  can  spell  and  what  words  they  cannot  spell  is  to 
give  them  the  opportunity  to  attempt  to  spell  all  the  words.  Keep  them  just  as 
happy  in  the  effort  as  possible  by  telling  them  that  other  boys  and  girls  of  the 
same  grade  are  trying  to  spell  the  same  words  in  other  schools  in  Iowa.  If 
you  are  teaching  in  grade  II  or  III,  it  will  probably  be  better  to  pronounce  25 
words  in  the  forenoon  and  25  in  the  afternoon  than  to  give  all  50  at  once. 

If  your  pupils  are  in  grades  VI,  VII,  or  VIII,  will  you  please  assist  in 
the  scoring  by  having  a  few  of  the  stronger  pupils  detailed  each  day  to  check 
the  papers  of  all  members  of  the  class.  Caution  them  that  they  are  not  to 
mark  the  word  in  any  way  but  only  make  a  cross  through  the  number  of  the 
word  which  is  misspelled.  Four  children  can  correct  the  papers  for  a  room  in 
twenty  to  thirty  minutes  and  you  will  doubtless  have  no  difficulty  in  finding 
some  of  the  pupils  who  will  very  gladly  do  this. 

The  papers  are  to  be  collected  each  day  and  tied  together.  At  the  end 
of  the  ten  days,  the  ten  bunches  of  papers  which  represent  the  ten  days '  spelling 
of  the  pupils  in  your  room,  are  to  be  sent  tied  in  a  single  package  to  your 
superintendent.  He  will  then  forward  these  papers  with  all  others  from  your 
city  to  the  Extension  Division.  The  Extension  Division  will  score  the  papers 
from  the  lower  grades  and  tabulate  the  spellings  from  all  contributing  schools 
and  return  the  results  to  your  Superintendent. 

To  the  extent  that  these  instructions  are  carefully  followed  and  your  co- 
operation secured  will  the  results  be  of  value  to  all  the  schools  of  the  state. 
Please  give  the  work  your  best  effort  but  do  not  attempt  to  improve  the 
spelling  of  the  children  of  your  room  on  these  words  by  assisting  them  in  their 
spelling  in  any  way. 


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The  Iowa  Spelling  Scales 


EXHIBIT  C 

Cities  Co-operating  in  Spelling  Study 


Adair 

Denison 

Lake  View 

Oskaloosa 

Algona 

Dunlap 

Lansing 

Ottumwa 

Ames 

Eddyville 

La  Porte  City 

Pella 

Belle  Plaine 

Eldon 

Le  Mars 

Pocahontas 

Belmond 

Fairfield 

Lineville 

Postville 

Bloomfield 

Glenwood 

Manilla 

Red  Oak 

Bonaparte 

Grinnell 

Manson 

Reinbeck 

Boone 

Griswold 

Marengo 

Remsen 

Britt 

Guttenburg 

Marshalltown 

Rockford 

Buffalo  Center 

Hampton 

Montezuma 

Rockwell  City 

Burlington 

Hartley 

Monticello 

Rolfe 

Carroll 

Hawarden 

Moulton 

Sheldon 

Casey 

Hopkinton 

Muscatine 

Sidney 

Centerville 

Humboldt 

Nashua 

Sigourney 

Chariton 

Humeston 

Nevada 

Sioux  Center 

Charles  City 

Ida  Grove 

New  Hampton 

Spirit  Lake 

Cherokee 

Independence 

New  London 

State  Center 

Clarinda 

Inwood 

New  Sharon 

Stuart 

Clarion 

Iowa  City 

Newton 

Toledo 

Clinton 

Jewell 

Northwood 

Waterloo,  E. 

Corning 

Keokuk 

Oakland 

Waukon 

Corydon 

Keosauqua 

Oelwein 

What  Cheer 

Council  Bluffs 

Kingsley 

Orange  City 

Williamsburg 

Cresco 

Knoxville 

Osage 

Woodbine 

Davenport 

Lake  Mills 

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